germany dates

• Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated

  1918
• The Armistice was signed which ended WWI

  1918
• The Treaty of Versailles

  1919
• The Spartacist uprising

  1919
• The Weimar Republic was established under Ebert

  1919
• The Kapp Putsch

  1920
• The French invaded the Ruhr area of Germany

  1923
• Hyperinflation led to rapid price rises from early 1923

  1923
• Stresemann became chancellor

  1923
• The Munich Putsch

  1923
• The Dawes Plan was agreed

  1924
• Hitler's book Mein Kampf was published

  1925
• The Locarno Pact was signed

  1925
• The Bamberg Conference

  1926
• Germany joined the League of nations

  1926
• The Kellogg Briand Pact was signed

  1928
• The Young Plan was agreed

  1929
• The Wall Street Crash in America led to high levels of unemployment in Germany

  1929
• The Nazi party became the largest party in the Reichstag

  1932
• Hitler was appointed Chancellor

  1933
• The Reichstag fire

  1933
• The Enabling Act

  1933
• Boycott of Jewish shops

  1933
• The Gestapo was set up

  1933
• The Concordat with Catholic Church was agreed

  1933
• The Night of the Long Knives

  1934
• Death of Hindenburg

  1934
• The Nuremberg Laws were introduced

  1935
• The Berlin Olympics

  1936
• Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

  1938
• WWII began

  1939